Saturday

Sidewalk, I took this shot when the guys were taking up my front sidewalk.

Now this is Inspiring.

The cooks at our local Italian market were making, by hand, all this wonderful Pasta

Time, it takes a lot of time especially for me to knit a cable design on a winter scarf.

Close up... while at a local feed store looking for chicks I came across this rather odd looking chicken. She was not at all amused with my trying to take her close up.

With Mirror

I found myself wandering around my home looking for something 'with mirror'... then I thought, hey, upstairs in my master closet.. I've been working on it all week, putting in new BHG style white wood shelving. The mirror will be incorporated into the shelving, once it's finished.

Wednesday

I have this great walk in closet and have been telling myself for several years, to redesign the shelving. Finally I got to it with the first step. Taking all the clothing and stuff stored out and making piles of 'thrift store, toss and store in the downstairs closet'. Then I put all saved clothing back on the shelves. It looks empty and I rather like it! Now for the first time in my life I can say, "I have nothing to wear"...

Inside the closet are such odd shaped walls. My idea is to tear out all the dumb wire shelves (who invented those horrible things?) and replace them with wood shelving along with cubbies to hold shoes and an assortment of things.

Sorta like something you might see in BHG Magazine.

My inspiration, although mine will not be exact but close to it!

A place for shoes and handbags too!

This is how I've been storing my purses. haha, hanging on nails.

I'm also happy to say, "This closet is all mine" don't have to share.

"Imagine and it will happen"

But first I need to measure and buy the wood, nails, screws, glue, mollies and paint.

Sounds like a lot of work I know but "Imagine and it will happen"

May seem a bit crude to some but here are my designs for each wall. Now to get some good measurements and have my local Home Depot Guy cut each piece of wood to fit. They always never do me wrong when cutting.

If you have ever baked a loaf of bread, or experimented with brewing beer or wine,
it is likely that you have used yeast as an ingredient. If so you may
have wondered why it was so important to include this seemingly trivial
component in your recipe. Perhaps you even wondered, where does yeast
come from?

However, this familiar product has an intriguing and unusual history with ancient origins.

Egyptian
hieroglyphics offer some of the earliest proof that yeast was used as a
baking and brewing ingredient over 5,000 years ago. Grinding stones,
baking ovens for yeasted bread, and sealed urns containing cooking and
brewing ingredients have also been discovered amidst ancient Egyptian
ruins.

The Bible also makes reference to leaven, a soft, doughy
type of bread. Yeasts left over from brewing or wine making were used
as starter cultures for these biblical leaven recipes.

Where
does yeast come from? While the earliest uses of yeast can be traced to
ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Middle Easter and even primitive European
cultures, yeast is certainly not native to any of these places.

The fact of the matter is, nearly 2,000 unique species of yeast can be
found universally occurring across the globe, in the air, and in the
soil; where ever there exists natural plant matter.

Yeast is
actually a tiny microorganism, classified in the plant kingdom of
Fungi. Where does yeast come from? In essence, yeast could be
considered a mushroom or mold variety that feeds on the natural sugars
found in grains, fruits and vegetables; producing carbon dioxide as a
byproduct of its consumption.

Yeast has been around for so long, it has come to be recognized as ‘the oldest plant cultivated by humans.’

It wasn’t until 1859 that Louis Pasteur,
a French chemist and microbiologist sought out a superior answer to the
question; where does yeast come from. Pasteur discovered that yeast
was actually a living, single cell organism, able to actively grow and
reproduce. He identified that fermentation was actually a form of
cellular respiration carried out by yeast cells. This ground breaking
discovery forever negated the idea of spontaneous generation, and led to
drastic improvements in food preservation and sterilization.

The next time you bite into a sandwich, take a moment to observe the
tiny air bubbles that give the bread its spongy texture. These bubbles
were created by active yeast, which caused carbon dioxide to rise
through the baking bread.
It may surprise you to think that the very yeast cultures that gave
rise to your lunch sandwich could be thousands of years older than you.

My daughter and her Coast Guard husband are in the process of being shipped out of Guam. Their on to a new duty station, sector OKC.

For the past few days they have been living with their three small boys, out of the Weston Hotel on the island of Guam waiting for their flight this weekend to return back to the states. Although over joyed with the move, Gina said, "Mom there was an earthquake this morning that shook this hotel and it was not a good feeling. Being in our house was just different when the earth shook. We were closer to the ground".

The whole family is very used to shaking at least once a week for the past three years but being on the 14th floor was a bit different.

It's got this grandma sitting here holding her breath for them. It's been a long 3 years.

I knew earthquakes happen every so often in different parts of the world but had no idea there were so many.